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AGAVE ALCESTIS ANTIGONE ARACHNE CALLISTO
CLYTEMNESTRA DANAE DEIANIRA ELECTRA HELEN
IO IPHIGENEIA LEDA MEDEA PANDORA
PENELOPE PHILOMELA PROCNE SCYLLA



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Arachne
Caption: Arachne
Creator: Velasquez
Title: The Tapestry Weavers or The Spinners ("Las Hilanderas") also known as The Fable of Arachne
Material: Painting
Date: c.1657
Current Location: Madrid, Prado 1173		Description: The foreground of this painting shows a genre scene of women spinning, but in the room behind we are taken into another dimension: the goddess Athena (Latin Minerva) appears before Arachne who stands in front of her tapestry. The composition of the painting, with its framed scene within a scene and its tapestry within the painting, mirrors Ovid's narrative technique of weaving stories within stories and working descriptions of works of art into his text.
Pandora
Caption: Pandora
Creator: Odilon Redon
Title: Pandora
Material: Painting
Date: c.1910
Current Location: New York, Metropolitan Museum 60.19.1		Description: Possibly a study for a mural.